Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 6 Issue 1

Practical evidence for service improvement

Subjects:

Table of contents

Health Action Zones: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Health and Health Care?

Edward Peck, Richard Poxton

This Paper Looks at Health Action Zones, to be established from April 1998 with the intention of moving towards prevention of illness and promotion of health. It suggests how…

Community Care for Older People: Taking the Broad View for Radical Change

Richard Poxton

The Health and social care needs of older people cover a large number of different systems, resulting in inadequate priorities for their needs. There is no single acknowledged…

Assuring the Quality of Assessment and Care Management

Colin Slasberg

This Case Study sets out how a large social services department has been developing a strategy to assure the quality of its assessment and care management service. It draws on…

Client Feedback — Does it lead to Improved Services? Part I — Background and Development of the Measurement Tool

Gill Lewin

This Case Study describes how Western Australia's largest home‐care organisation approached the task of obtaining feedback on its performance from its clients. The aim was to use…

Outlands: Five Years on

Sue Younger‐Ross, Tess Lomax

The ‘Outlands Pilot’ was a joint project set up in 1992 by Devon Social Services Department and the Health Authority. It offered an intermediate setting between hospital and home…

Cover of Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN:

1476-9018

Online date, start – end:

1996

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Axel Kaehne